Wyoming's state seal scandal
Wyoming's state seal was officially adopted just under 130 years ago, but two of the proposed seal designs that preceded it caused quite a scandal.
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Wyoming's state seal was officially adopted just under 130 years ago, but two of the proposed seal designs that preceded it caused quite a scandal.
In 1881, George “Big Nose” Parrott was lynched by a group of masked men from Carbon County after he killed the deputy sheriff.